Mean Girls Clip- Internal Pressures

This clip, from the film Mean Girls, expresses precisely the internal pressures that come from social groups. The clip captures how each individual attending the school is stereotypically grouped and what that group tells others about you.







Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) has been forced by her zoologist parents to leave her African jungle life and enter a Public High School in America. At first she is socially unaccepted by the 'popular crowd' however, once she changes her appearance and learns the unwritten social rules she turns into a very nasty Queen Bee. This film demostrates the social pressures that teenage girls face today.

Mean Girls is rated PG-13 due to sexual content, language and some teen partying. This film gave me an insight into the pressures a typical school girl recieves: the pressure to look a certain way, the pressure to be popular and the pressure to have the highest social status.